This is an analysis of the poem Dreams that begins with:
I HAVE been dreaming all a summer day
Of rare and dainty poems I would write;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdDcbba AbbcD dcbXaXAdaD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0111010111 1101001111 110100111011 1111010011 0101010101 1001110101 1011110101 0001100101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010111 1011111111 1111010101 0101010101 1111010011 1100100111 1101000111 1101011100 1111010101 1101010101 0111010011 1111010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word out is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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